Carlo Fracanzani

Carlo Fracanzani (born June 12, 1935 in Padua ) is an Italian lawyer and politician who worked temporarily as a minister for the Democrazia Cristiana and was a member of parliament until the party was dissolved. He became known throughout Europe through his resignation because of the media law that favored Silvio Berlusconi .

Life

Carlo Fracanzani was born in Padua, but lived for a long time in Este in Veneto. He received his doctorate in law and then worked as a lawyer. In 1968 he stood for the first time in an election and was consequently a member of parliament for the Christian Democrats. From 1972 to 1979 he was a member of the Commission for Foreign Affairs and Emigration, initially in the 6th legislative period from July 11, 1972 to July 4, 1976, and again in the subsequent 7th legislative period until June 19, 1979.

Since he belonged to the left wing of the Christian Democrats, he was sometimes referred to as " Conte Rosso " ('Red Count'). In the first Fanfani government , he became Undersecretary in the Ministry of Finance. From 1988 to 1990 he was a member of the government under Luigi Ciriaco De Mita of the Democrazia Cristiana as Ministro delle partecipazioni statali della Repubblica Italiana , a ministry responsible for overseeing state investments in the national economy . This ruled from April 1988 to May 1989. At the same time he was a member of the Italian Parliament from the 5th to the 11th legislative period and President of the Commissione Speciale Per Le Politiche Comunitarie from June 24, 1992 to April 14, 1994.

After the end of the De Mita government, he was confirmed as minister in the subsequent government under Giulio Andreotti . However, along with four other ministers, including later President Sergio Mattarella (since 2015), he resigned in protest against the law known as Legge Mammì , which was supported by Giulio Andreotti . But Andreotti did not dissolve the government, because this law, named after the first signatory Oscar Mammì , at the time Minister for Post and Telecommunications, was on the contrary passed on the next day, August 1, 1990, despite the resignation of another 13 undersecretaries by secret ballot . It was supposed to primarily ensure diversity of opinion or pluralism , but at the same time opened the market for private television programs and radio stations for companies that increasingly enforced monopolistic structures. It was supported by Bettino Craxi and Silvio Berlusconi .

After the end of the Christian Democratic Party, he became a member of the Partito Popolare Italiano that emerged from it, under the leadership of Mino Martinazzoli , who had re-adopted the old name of the party, which it had carried until 1943. However, Fracanzani was not elected in the 1994 European elections. From the Partito Popolare Italiano in 2002 the party Democrazia è Libertà - La Margherita emerged, which, however, like all successor parties of the DC, disappeared again.

Remarks

1. ↑ Juan Arias: Dimiten en Italia cuatro ministros de la izquierda democristiana. La ley de la televisión provoca una crisis en el Gobiemo de Giulio Andreotti. In: El País . July 27, 1990, Retrieved February 19, 2016 (Spanish). 
2. ↑ Carlo Fracanzani , Incarichi parliamentary , Camera dei deputati - portal storico.
3. ^ Stefano Lorenzetto: Visti da lontano. Il prezzo della vanità , Marsilio, 2011, p. 13.
4. ↑ In this role he supported the MO.SE project for flood protection in Venice ( history of the project from 1988 to 1994 , Italian).
5. ^ Commissione speciale per le politiche comunitarie .
6. ↑ Felice Froio: Il cavaliere incantatore. Chi è veramente Berlusconi , Edizione Dedalo, 2003, p. 22.

Web links

• Entry in the Portale storico of the Camera dei deputati